Ecological and social domains are truly one integrated system with complex interactions and feedbacks
Human survival depends on thriving ecosystems and ecosystem health now depends on the choice humans make
Ecological and social domains are truly one integrated system with complex interactions and feedbacks
Human survival depends on thriving ecosystems and ecosystem health now depends on the choice humans make
Ecological and social domains are truly one integrated system with complex interactions and feedbacks
Successful biodiversity conservation will require addressing needs and inequities in human societies
Ecological and social domains are truly one integrated system with complex interactions and feedbacks
Successful biodiversity conservation will require addressing needs and inequities in human societies
And successful social reform and sustainable futures for humans will require biodiversity conservation
So many creative solutions are possible
So many creative solutions are possible but they require commitment from, interaction between, and honoring of…
Through …
the things we do
and
the ways we be
What other effects do these root causes have?
The same extract and deplete mentality is impacting our planet, biosphere, social, emotional, and educational systems…
The same extract and deplete mentality is impacting our planet, biosphere, social, emotional, and educational systems…
This is painful….every one of us has a direct personal relationship to at least one of these issues
Like it’s been in the oven too long and the edges are all burnt and taste like charcoal
How do we manage our mental fire?
How do manage aspects of our society that are to hot to touch?
How do prevent nature from turning into ash?
We don’t have 10,000 problems, we have a foundational problem with 10,000 faces
So what is the medicine?
THOUGHTS?
Don’t bypass pain
It doesn’t need to be avoided or indulged but it needs to be acknowledged
Even in college classes
By acknowledging it we can learn how to deal with it and how to make appropriate actions in the future to alter the root cause
Reinforce the truth: that things wouldn’t be depressing if we didn’t care deeply
Connecting to deep caring is totally different than a false “finding the silver lining”
For example, this object in this picture could be reversed
Support actions that come organically from caring rather than guilt
We are desperate for solutions but we keep being fed the same external ideas
Root causes affect everything….But now we constantly have real-time opportunities to practice this paradigm
We can explore personal or collective action anywhere
And this action doesn’t have to be a fight against something
And we can address root causes in small daily ways:
And we can address root causes in small daily ways:
What could we ask Shepherd to do better everyday?
On a particular branch?
On a particular level?
individual
collective
policy actor
In a particular way?
internal
external
On a particular root?
Is individual action pointless in the face of climate change? Let’s not beat around the bush…
“I think this is one of the great moral challenges of the 21st Century, perhaps the greatest moral challenge”, he says. “If we are not acting, we are endangering everyone who is alive now and also future generations.” Peter Singer of Princeton University